The #6 movie on the record of the most important films of 2023 to this point — forward of Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Knock on the Cabin, and even Shazam! Fury of the Gods, is Cocaine Bear. Now this can be very tough to boil this epic tone poem of cinema right down to a quick synopsis, nevertheless it’ll do my greatest: It’s a couple of bear that’s on cocaine.
(Okay that was easier than I initially imagined.)
And now, after a surprisingly profitable run in theaters the place this bear grossed $63 million within the U.S. and one other $20 million worldwide, Cocaine Bear is headed to streaming. The Universal Pictures launch will premiere on Peacock one week from right now.
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The movie, directed by Elizabeth Banks, is supposedly primarily based on a real story (with a good quantity of invention, I might wager) a couple of bear that bought right into a misplaced stash of medicine. In addition to Cocaine Bear (as himself), the movie additionally stars Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and the late, nice Ray Liotta in one in every of his closing roles.
In addition to drawing important audiences to theaters, Cocaine Bear did surprisingly nicely with critics; it presently sits with a 67 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Here is the movie’s official synopsis:
Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s aircraft crash, lacking cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, vacationers and teenagers converging in a Georgia forest the place a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering quantity of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for extra blow … and blood.
Cocaine Bear premieres on Peacock on April 14.
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